The world is today confronted with a dastardly menace of terrorism, its effects is ravaging every continent and every country and Nigeria is not left out of the frenzy, with Boko Haram been pegged the deadliest terrorist group in the world with an average of 14 deaths per attack. This paper attempts to examine Nigeria’s foreign policy and how the fight against global terrorism has shaped Nigeria’s interaction with the outside world. To do this, the paper adopted the national interest theory, employed the use of qualitative data and leveraged on the technique of content analysis to arrive at its conclusion. The paper is structured into four sections, section one is the introduction, section two dealt with conceptual clarification and theoretical framework, section three discussed Nigeria foreign policy and global terrorism and section four is the conclusion. Keywords: Foreign Policy, Global Terrorism, National Interest
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In this study we interrogated whether the conduct of Nigeria’s foreign policy has played any significant role in addressing the issue of global terrorism since after the terrorist strike on US in 2001. We focused on the action of elected and appointed government officials, their self interest and the nature of their relations with various client groups. We argued that political actors who make choice in the world of scare resources are influenced by each other, foreign officials, unions, and others who have direct or indirect stake in public policies. The global market is made up of those who damage certain type of public policies and those who supply them. These actors are self-interested. We concluded that, the conduct of Nigeria’s foreign policy has not fully grown above ethnic and parochial vagaries in deciding issues of global importance, hence their peacekeeping efforts in Africa is both saddening and embarrassing as economic managers prioritize their selfish interest first before the public interest.
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GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
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This study seeks to ascertain the origin and history of terrorism in Nigeria; determine the causes of terrorism in Nigeria; examine Nigeria’s foreign policies and relations from 1999-2015; evaluate how terrorism has affected Nigeria’s foreign policies in the international arena; ascertain the measures taken by the government in tackling terrorist acts in Nigeria and give recommendations on how to tackle this menace. The methodology used in this research was analytical method. The study derives its data from both primary and secondary sources. The primary sources include oral information gotten from men in military, civil servants and politicians through interviews because they are experts and policy makers. Therefore, these informations from these sets of people will be crucial to the research while secondary source which is also known as documentation. Due to the spontaneous nature of the issue under research, informations shall be gathered from magazines, Journals, Newspapers, textbooks, internet materials which are relevant to the study. Findings from fieldwork showed that terrorism has also become one of the most important fundamentals of Nigeria’s foreign policies and relation, respondents from the people interviewed showed that terrorism the menace, terrorism must be adequately tackled in other to archive Nigeria’s foreign policy. Furthermore, results revealed that the fight against the scourge has increasingly and generally gained legitimacy and justification among the international community particularly as many nation-states consider it to be their international obligation to support the global movement to ameliorate if not to eliminate the menace. In conclusion, this research made among other recommendations that the Nigerian government should ensure the provision of good life for its citizens, the inter-connectivity of terrorist organizations must be defeated, the government should undergo a foreign policy drive designed at rebuilding its image in the international environment and also the promotion of peace education among various government, religious institutions, private sector and civil society groups should be encouraged.
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This research discusses the nature, origins and impact of terrorist insurgency in Nigeria, while discussing the phenomenon of how it has been internationalized. It also discussed it not only in the context of globalisation but also on it implication on Nigeria foreign policy and the failure to devise effective policies to meet the country’s daunting challenges. This research employed the qualitative research method in trying to both describe and explain the implication of the internationalization of Boko haram insurgency group on Nigeria foreign policy.
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African Journal of Politics and Administrative Studies
The paper examined the symbiotic relationship between the concepts of national interest and foreign policy, stressing that a well grafted foreign policy is dependent on a well thought-out national interest which remains a guide to a nation’s foreign policy formulation and implementation. Nigeria’s foreign policy over the years has been touted to be guided by the country’s national interest which studies in the past revealed is obfuscating. Nigeria’s national interest and her foreign policy in the past and the present, which is said to be at variance with what is obtained in other climes. In order to achieve the objective of this study, the paper adopted the theory of state capture as our guide. The paper employs the qualitative content analysis approach and relies mainly on secondary sources of data such as textbooks, journal articles, periodicals, conferences papers and the internet, etc. The study finds that there is disconnect between Nigeria’s national interest and her foreign p.
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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
This study interrogates the discourses and issues of terrorism and counterterrorism in Nigeria. That terrorism has plagued Nigeria for over a decade (2009-2020) makes it imperative to subject the purpose, conduct, scope, and outcomes of Nigeria’s counterterrorism efforts to a critical analysis. This work adopted qualitative research methods (primary and secondary data collection), and used discourse analysis strategy to analyse the collected data. Using critical terrorism studies framework, the central argument of this study is that Nigeria lacks national consensus on the problem of terrorism, which has impacted negatively on the efforts to counter the scourge. The country lacks the needed unity of purpose to combat terrorism due to vested interests and politicisation of the terrorism issues. Consequently, the menace has lingered in ways that have made the country very fragile. This study concluded that for Nigeria to get out of the woods, both the leaders and the citizens would hav.
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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
